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Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
ED-GRANTS-030909-005
Opportunity Category:
Other
Posted Date:
Mar 09, 2009
Creation Date:
Mar 11, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
The Deadline for Transmittal of Applications has not been determined.
Current Closing Date for Applications:
The Deadline for Transmittal of Applications has not been determined.
Archive Date:
Funding Instrument Type:
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Education
Recovery Act
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
15
Estimated Total Program Funding:
$200,000,000
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
84.385
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Teacher Incentive Fund
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
Yes
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Local Educational Agencies (LEAs), including charter schools that are LEAs in their state, SEAs, or partnerships of (1) an LEA, an SEA, or both, and (2) at least one nonprofit organization may apply.
Agencies with differentiated compensation systems already in place may apply for a TIF program grant to expand their programs so that they reach additional high-need school sites or to include teachers or administrators in high-need schools who are not participating in the current system.
For purposes of the TIF program, a high-need school means a school with more than 30 percent of its enrollment from low-income families, based on eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch subsidies, or other poverty measures that the State permits the LEAs to use. For middle and high schools, eligibility may be calculated on the basis of comparable data from feeder schools.
Agency Name
Department of Education
Description
Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information.Purpose of Program: These supplemental funds, appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), are intended to help stimulate the American economy. The purpose of the Teacher Incentive Fund is to support programs that develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems, based primarily on increases in student achievement, in high-need schools. The goals of the Teacher Incentive Fund program include:• Improving student achievement by increasing teacher and principal effectiveness; • Reforming teacher and principal compensation systems so that teachers and principals are rewarded for increases in student achievement; • Increasing the number of effective teachers teaching poor, minority, and disadvantaged students in hard-to-staff subjects; and • Creating sustainable performance-based compensation systems.The purpose of ARRA is (1) To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery; (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession; (3) To provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health; (4) To invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits; and (5) To stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases. Award recipients are legally obligated to meet specific reporting requirements established by the Act.
Link to Additional Information
If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement
electronically, please contact:
Julius Cotton
ED Grants.gov FIND System Admin.
Phone (202) 245-6140
julius.cotton@ed.gov
Program Manager:
April Lee
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3E120
Washington, DC 20202-5970
Telephone:(202) 205-5224 or by e-mail:
e-Mail: Program Mailbox
Synopsis Modification History
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